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I suspect wank will be forthcoming. Apparently I am not famous enough to make the Banned People List. Blythely, you're on there. You should totally go write porn at the pretty troll.

Commentary post-hack: Link was lost; I have a very hazy idea of what this refers to, but I can't find any information about it on fandom_wank.

In other news...

I posted, a while back, that I was in the throes of thesishood and all the rest, and that while it was likely I would continue to work on fic, it wasn't to be expected until I was finished with other things. And indeed I have posted some fic, but I have to confess that I haven't actually worked on Laocoon's Children, apart from beta reading, in possibly months. I haven't kept track, but it's been a long time.

I'm not ashamed or unhappy about that; thesis and other various traumas took precedence. I must say, though, that it was a blissful relief to sit down this morning and bang out chapter fourteen.

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Commentary post-hack: I can't believe this never made fandom_wank. It was HUGE at the time, but most of the posts have been locked down.

All right, before people get upset or worried....

For those of you who don't know, skyehawke.com is a fanfic archive which is invitation/application only; members must demonstrate a basic grasp of the english language and a certain amount of literary merit to be a member, much like pornish_pixies and other such writing communities. I have been with skyehawke since it began -- I had the seventh account opened on the archive, and have fostered many other authors into it.

Skyehawke has changed their TOS because they were recieving complaints about chan, in particular about child-molestation fantasies being posted as fanfic, and had no way to deal with it. The admins decided to create a format in which the complaint would be examined by a council of three people (known as the Illiterati, of whom I am one) who will come to a consensus on whether or not TOS has been broken. This format includes not only a thorough discussion of the literary merit of the piece, but an opportunity for the author to defend their work and answer any questions the examining board may have.

In this it is a good deal more enlightened than almost any other archive's policy, certainly more enlightened than ff.net; there are real human beings with names, reading and discussing your fanfic before a decision is made. Vendetta complaints can be disregarded, authors can speak their mind, and no faceless administrator will automatically remove your fanfic without an investigation.

In addition, none of this will happen unless a complaint is lodged in the first place, and those have been, aside from the recent kerfuffle, few and far between.

For a full definition of TOS, the role of the Illiterati, and the method in which they were chosen, you can read this post. http://forums.skyehawke.com/viewtopic.php?t=751

I will be happy to answer any questions you have about what I think about chan, what the council's purpose is, and whether you should be concerned. (You shouldn't.)

EDIT: Before you comment with either curiousity or indignity, please make sure you have scanned the comments to make sure your question hasn't already been asked and answered. Make sure, also, that if you have a question about what violates TOS, you have actually read through the TOS to make sure it doesn't answer your question. If you don't understand TOS, that's one thing, and I'm happy to help, but please at least read through it first.

ETA2: Having had permission from the others, I'd like to point you to Koanju ( idiotparade ) and Nquisitor ( nquisitor ) as my fellow Illiterati. I'd also like to remind you, having had some comments about Koanju's beliefs, that the Illiterati were specifically chosen so that all sides of the debate would have fair consideration. Neither Koanju, nor Nquisitor, nor myself set policy at Skyehawke, nor do we have the authority to change TOS in any way. We are merely there to serve as a trio of mediators regarding TOS violation complaints. Tien, our Supreme Administrator, has also posted a clarification of some of the TOS-talk here.